Safari Park welcomes newborn Przewalski's horse, first for the park since 2014

Through a collaborative effort, science teams from the nonprofit Revive & Restore, the animal cloning company ViaGen Pets & Equine and San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance were able to achieve the world's first successfully cloned Przewalski's horse in 2020.

That horse, named Kurt, was born to a surrogate mother — a domestic quarter horse — and is the clone of a male Przewalski's stallion whose DNA was cryopreserved 42 years ago in the Alliance's Wildlife Biodiversity Bank. "Kurt is significant to his species because he offers the hope of bringing back lost genetic diversity to the population," said Nadine Lamberski, chief conservation and wildlife health officer for San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance."It is imperative to do everything we can to save this genetic diversity before it disappears."

The colt was named Kurt in honor of Dr. Kurt Benirschke, who joined the zoo's research committee in 1970, and worked as the zoo's director of research from 1974 to 1986. Dr. Benirschke died in 2018 at the age of 94.

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